Improvement in pipe-joints



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UNITED STATES PATENT `IEFLICE.

JOHN DEMAREST, OF MOTT HAVEN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JORDAN L. MOTT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PIPE-JOINTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,663, dated November 18, 1873 application led september 20, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DEMAREsT, of Mott Haven, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Pipe-Joint, of which the following is a specification:

The invention will iirst be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a longitudinal section of acouple of sections of pipe coupled together by my improved plan. Fig. 2 is a section, showing the mode of coupling on a piece not having a flange, and Fig. 3 is an end elevation of a piece of pipe having a flange applied to it by means of the aforesaid two-part collar.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a piece of pipe having chambers B O formed in the end larger than the bore D. E represents a piece of pipe having an extension, F, beyond the iiange fitting snugly in the part (l of the chamber, not quite as far as the bottom, and having a smaller extension, G, extending into the part B of said chamber. H represents packing in part O of the recess between the bottom and shoulder I, which, being packed in tightwhen the flanges K are bolted together, makes a tight joint. L represents the two-part collar, which I propose to use in connection with this kind of joint for connecting short pieces not having a flange, K. Said collar consists of two semici'rcular pieces with flanges M at the ends, by which they are firmly clamped upon the piece of pipe O, and thus constitute a flange, I), to be bolted to ilange K of the other section. This collar has an extension, Q, beyond the flange, for entering the chamber O, while the `end of the pipe itself enters part B of the chamber. By this contrivance any short piece can be coupled the same as the whole pieces having anges form chambers B C, the former to receive eX- tension G, and the latter to form a close cham-` ber for the packing, in the manner set forth, so that the packing will not be exposed to the water or acid, and thus gradually be forced ont of its place into the pipe.

JOHN DEMAREST. Witnesses:

A. P. THAYER, T. B. Mosman. 

